Wonkette
Twelve candidates showed up for a mayoral debate in Memphis last night, and as you can see in the photo, this included some crazies — can you believe they let a black guy participate? Here was another candidate’s epic closing: “I don’t know what I would do if I’m elected mayor of Memphis. [unintelligible] If I do get elected mayor of Memphis, well, there are some things I will do. I will go decriminalize marijuana and focus on the hard drugs, the real drugs, the junkies, keep them out of Memphis, and it’ll be a better place to live. And I would use The Pyramid. It’s not being used for anything. Well, let’s let Memphis take it for [unintelligible] — Let’s be known for something in the world. Let’s be known for having the best pot. It sounds like a good idea to me.” Why not? [Memphis Flyer]
Good to see Dennis Hopper recovering quickly.
All Hail Mayor Prince Mongo!
Too bad he is only pawn in game of life.
Haha. That old guy’s name is “Prince Mongo”.
They have an excellent bbq contest at the Memphis in May festival, why not pot?
Memphis huh? And the booger-munching crackers have the nerve to sneer at San Francisco ‘loonies’.
memphis should have the best pot
to piss in and the best window
to throw it out of
everything else is icing on the cake
Vote for Pedro.
It’s brave of the black guy to speak so strongly in favor of legalizing marijuana. That’s a tough position to take.
Another contender is Jerry “The King” Lawler. It’s true!!
Damn right about the pyramid. Gotta use the pyramid. Is Mark Penn helping Prince Mongo’s campaign? The bit about using the pyramid sounds just like the sort of microtargeted, wonky policy position that would test extremely well with a focus group.
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin’ plane!
—–Mace Windu
Pretty much the only way I’m going to let Meg Whitman off the hook is if she can prove that every election she skipped was like this one.
Let me go with something more obscure: I had no idea Todd Rundgren was interested in politics.
At least it’s better than the typical Jack Johnson/John Jackson matchups in our 1.2-party system.
Mongo, you from Memphis? Cos you the only 10 I see! Or something.
If you can boast being the home of Graceland, you don’t need no other fucking claim to fame. And, speaking of things Elvis, if you have the stomach for it, take a little drive into Holly Springs, MS for a tour of Graceland Too.
For those of you listening outside of the “Memphis Metropolitan Area”, here’s some information on this human fruitcake.
That last guy should mention JEEBUS a few times and he’ll be a shoe in.
Everytime I hear someone talk about the need to open up the electoral process to more candidates and parties, I’ll think of that picture.
“Let’s be known for something in the world. Let’s be known for having the best pot. It sounds like a good idea to me.”
Logic is its own defense.
Jim, why are you allowing this soldier to scare us? You know we liberals and we hate guns soldiers. And when did this fucked up war become Barry’s war, shouldn’t you start the fucking war first? Is it because he is black or Indonesian or whatever he is?
Shit, the Dave Matthews Band already plays Mud Island like 18 times a year. Because of that I just assumed pot was already legal there.
Memphis looks like an [unintelligible] place to live! The people there seem so [unintelligible].
Chain Tattoo: Well, you gotta know about the Pyramid. It was a big deal. Get it? Memphis TN = Memphis Egypt:
http://jubileeltd.biz/Posties/pyramid_day.jpg
Another triumph of sports-will-save-us city planning!
And don’t forget Mud Island!
Prince Mongo’s closing statement (which was not quoted above) began thusly:
“Well, the thing that you need to do the most is to go look in the mirror tonight and see what a fool you’ve been for electing the thieves that you’ve continued to elect to run this city year after year.”
He then held a post-debate press conference in the back of his campaign bus, the “Electric Kool-Aid Acid Express”.
I got nothing being from Minnesota and all.
The sad thing is that there are prolly some crackers out there that would vote for prince nutjob instead of the colored dude, amirite? I mean, people voted for McCain, after all.
Chickensmack: Prince Mongo’s mother was an immigrant from Lebanon.
I knew it! He’s Danny Thomas, Jr.!
Picture is screaming for Blingee.
Dear Memphis –
Thank you.
Love,
Wasilla
Kind of makes you wish they’d remove/lower the standards for the Presidential Debates, doesn’t it?
Who’s the guy with the hair?
Looks like the hippie alien from Star Trek.
RoscoePColtraine: ahem…
Palin.
Dear Memphis,
Is this a challenge? Bring your best herb.
-Seattle
hobospacejunkie: They have an excellent bbq contest at the Memphis in May festival, why not pot?
OMG, the pot-munchies at a BBQ festival. Where’s that pic of the guy rolling his belly around in a wheelbarrow?
freakishlystrong: Prince Mongo is a blingee.
They should just write [unintelligble] for Maureen Dowd’s next column, and all of Going Rogue.
If you were ever involved in small town politics (or I presume big town politics) you know that town meetings, etc. attract the local lunatics like a magnet. What’s strange is that they usually are there to complain, not to actually run for office.
skoalrebel looks a bit tanned…
Joshua Norton: Oh, believe me, Southern loonies make San Francisco loonies look like Mr. Rogers imitators (with possible exception of onetime SFers Charles Manson, et. al., dba as The Family). Hell, Helen, Georgia, has more weirdness than SF.
Mister Crump don’t ‘low no easy riders here
AbstinenceOnly Ed: David Brooks got there first.
Yasser Chickenfat?
Chickensmack: Which begs the question, if the crazy is allowed on the ticket, why can’t the crazy debate? And, I just answered my own question, as I typed that.
Sweet Baby Cheeses: Again? Hasn’t he run for that before? Or was that some other political office? Or am I just insane? (Don’t answer that.) Well, at least we know he’d be a friend to the animal shelters; he’s really pro-puppies.
For those that don’t know, the Memphis Pyramid was a giant works project to try and bring conventions to the city, but right now it’s completely stinking useless. It hasn’t booked a single event in years because the city shut it down or something equally ‘tarded, and it’s fast turning into downtown’s biggest eyesore. Plus, the blacks/hipsters sure do love the Mary Johanna. I expect a landslide for Cousin It.
Potater: At least that’s the story my Memphis resident / professional white person uncle told me.
Seriously, a few dozen comments in already and no one has mentioned “Mongo only pawn in game of life”? What the hell is wrong with you people?!?!?
I’d vote for him.
Potater: but there is a streetcar line that runs next to it?
Potater:
I heard Bass Pro Shops was considering buying the pyramid. No joke.
Strange as it is, I can see this working. Camo paint job, 4 wheeler test track up one side.
rev_matt_y: No one except the second commenter…
rev_matt_y: Look all the way up to the second comment.
Potater: prizepig: You’re both right. And yes, I just heard again on the news (yes, SBC lives in the land of BBQ and Elvis) that the Bass Pro Shops deal on the Pyramid is moving forward*.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/oct/06/lowery-bass-pro-ceo-headed-memphis-pyramid-deal/
* I wrote this comment before I saw the headline in the Commercial Appeal! I swear!
Can’t fool me Coulter I’d recognize that Adam’s apple anywhere
Speaking as a Memphrica resident, virtually everything that has been said of Memphis in the above thread is true.
Shut down, embarrassing, might-be-bought-by-Bass-Fucking-ProShop Pyramid? Not only that, it looks like we might fail miserably at that sale, too. Just open it up and make it a convention center already, you retards.
Prince Mongo? A regular fixture in Memphis Mayoral elections, and he regularly claims to be from outer fucking space.
I got the Notice of Special Election in the paper yesterday, and there are no fewer than 25 names on it. At least Detroit makes us look good every once in a while.
Actually, it sounds like a good idea to me, too.
So Nick Nolte is out of rehab and entering the world of politics…
Also, some election background for non-residents: Willie Herenton, mayor of Memphis for eleventy billion years and professional drama queen, after fake resigning like four times over the past two years, finally ACTUALLY resigned so he could run for the fucking House seat currently held by Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen has been a pretty decent representative already, but Herenton is determined to unseat him, citing the need for that district to be represented by a black person (no, seriously). In Willie’s wake, our beloved foreign-dignitary-fist-bumping Mayor Pro-tem Myron Lowry has continued to carry the embarrassing torch for Memphis until the upcoming special election these debates are for.
All this after Steve Cohen demolished his biggest competitor in the primary last year, in a contest that had featured quite a bit of race baiting already (did you know that Steve Cohen, known Jew, is secretly a KKK sympathizer?). Get ready, people, this will be next year’s Democratic Primary To Watch. If Herenton wins, we will finally have our Democratic Michelle Bachmann, I shit you not.
Just for those who don’t actually feel like reading the Flyer article, I feel the need to defend Mongo (The awesome guy in the wig). He did not actually say the stuff about legalizing pot, if he did he might actually get a couple of votes. No, the legalizing pot guy is the one with multiple personalities. He’s even cooler. I fully support their right to be there, otherwise all the boring non-statements made by viable candidates would kill attendance.
WHERE IS ALAN KEYES!?
Sweet Baby Cheeses: God I hope King becomes mayor. You know he would if they let him be listed on the ballot as “Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler”.
Do what it takes to get him off Monday Night Raw, Memphis! I beg you!
What’s Christopher Lloyd doing running for mayor of Memphis?
Vulpes82: http://lawlerformayor.com/
I need alt-text the way Dick Cheney needs baby blood.
memphisgypsy: I showed the link to a current Seattle resident who Escaped from Memphis, and he says Mongo once ran on a platform to stock the Mississippi with sharks and piranha so he could turn Mud Island into a maximum security prison.
boooooooooo …Prince Mongo …booooooooooo
Is the economy so bad that Dustin Hoffman has to run for Mayor now?
gjdodger: Yep, it’s true. My uncle saved the campaign flier with that proposal on it, because it was just so fantastic.
Formerly Known as KevoTron: I thought you were going to say San Francisco or Berkeley!
Isn’t that guy on the left Ann Coulter?
It’s all fun and games, until the race riots start.
So newspapers are becoming Flyers now? Oh, those crazy pulp readers, what will they do until their ‘journalism’ gets a proper bailout?
Bruno: Actually, the Memphis Flyer is our local “free” wholly ad-supported paper. I always pick it up because the horoscopes (like two paragraphs per sign) are the most hilarious pieces of literary bullshit in the history of the world.
Godot: We may as well elect a crazy to be mayor… our mayors tend to go crazy after a term or four.
At least one person understands the Public Option!
can you believe they let a black guy participate?
I’d be surprised if a white guy could get a word in, edgewise. You all do know that Memphis is over 60% African American, right?
Elvis Presley!
Carl Perkins.
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Elvis Presley!
Carl Perkins.
Elvis Presley!
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i lived in memphis for 15 years - this is nothing new. mongo and lawler run every year…the only difference this year is that king willie won’t be there to win the next 1,000 consecutive elections. oh, and about the flyer - with bruce vanwyngarden as the editor, you know it’s got to be good.